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CWA Local 7102 Meetings are 2nd Thursday of each month. Retiree's Club Meeting 2nd Wed. of the month 11 AM at the hall (April-November) Pres. Mary Jo Collins VP. Marilyn Wolfe Sec. Bev Simon Treas. Helen Walsh See the CWA's Retired Members' Council web site.
www.retiredamericans.org If you took early retirement and not yet 65. Do read this fact sheet from the White House. Early Benefits from the Affordable Care Act of 2010 Reinsurance Program for Early Retirees CWA 7102 Committee on Equity News ![]() ![]()
The rich and moving colors of the CWA Civil Rights logo represents movement among people of all cultures. Where everyone is lifted up, not because of the color of our skin, gender, religion or sexual orientation but because of our humanity and passion for justice. Where worlds and communities separated, move together as one voice for a common cause. Our Mission Statement The mission of the Equity Committee of our Local CWA 7102 is to develop and promote the CWA Civil Rights program. Our vision is to build a union where members of all cultures, religious, sexual orientations, gender, disabilities, ages, and nationalities feel welcomed, respected, and heard; and where our leadership reflects the diversity of our membership. Duties and Responsibilities of Local COE · Build an effective committee which provides a valuable service to the Union and the membership and carries out the CWA Civil Rights program. · Work cooperatively with the Local Union Executive Board and other Local committees, stewards and community activist. · Educate the membership on the role of the COE and current Civil Rights issues, and inform the membership on laws and protections. · Strengthen Labor, by working with communities, minority organizations and coalitions which aim to eliminate discrimination Committee on Equity Members Rochelle
Long, Chair COE email rachellelong@cwa7102.org
Co-Chair COE email denisehuptly@cwa7102.org Jim Perkey, EVP CWA 7102 email jimperkey@cwa7102.org Kerry Bowen, VP CWA 7102 email kerrybowen@cwa7102.org Melissa Obie, Committee Member email melissaobie@cwa7102.org Tommy (TJ) Streets, Committee Member email tommystreets@cwa7102.org Dorothy Height, civil rights activist, dies at 98 WASHINGTON
- Dorothy Height, the leading female voice of the 1960s civil rights movement
and a participant in historic marches with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and
others, died Tuesday. She was 98.
Height led the National Council of Negro Women for 40 years. She continued actively speaking out into her 90s but had been at Howard University Hospital for some time. The hospital said in a statement she died of natural causes. President Barack Obama called her "the godmother of the civil rights movement" and a hero to many Americans. Obama said in a statement that Height was the only woman at the highest level of the civil rights movement and witnessed "every march and milestone along the way." It was the second death of a major civil rights figure in less than a week. Benjamin L. Hooks, the former longtime head of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, died Thursday in Memphis at 85. As a teenager, Height marched in New York's Times Square shouting, "Stop the lynching." In the 1950s and 1960s, she was the leading woman helping King and other activists orchestrate the civil rights movement. One of Height's sayings was, "If the time is not ripe, we have to ripen the time." She liked to quote 19th century abolitionist Frederick Douglass, who said that the three effective ways to fight for justice are to "agitate, agitate, agitate." The late activist C. DeLores Tucker once called Height an icon to all African-American women. "I call Rosa Parks the mother of the civil rights movement," Tucker said in 1997. "Dorothy Height is the queen." Height was on the platform at the Lincoln Memorial, sitting only a few feet from King, when he gave his famous "I have a dream" speech at the March on Washington in 1963. "He spoke longer than he was supposed to speak," Height recalled in a 1997 Associated Press interview. But after he was done, it was clear King's speech would echo for generations, she said, "because it gripped everybody." Height became president of the National Council of Negro Women in 1957 and held the post until 1997, when she was 85. She remained chairman of the group. "I hope not to work this hard all the rest of my life," she said at the time. "But whether it is the council, whether it is somewhere else, for the rest of my life, I will be working for equality, for justice, to eliminate racism, to build a better life for our families and our children." Height received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1994 from President Bill Clinton. To celebrate Height's 90th birthday in March 2002, friends and supporters raised $5 million to enable her organization to pay off the mortgage on its Washington headquarters. The donors included Oprah Winfrey and Don King. Height was born in Richmond, Va., and the family moved to the Pittsburgh area when she was four. She earned bachelor's and master's degrees from New York University and did postgraduate work at Columbia University and the New York School of Social Work. (She had been turned away by Barnard College because it already had its quota of two black women.) In 1937, while she was working
at the Harlem YWCA, Height met famed educator Mary McLeod Bethune, the
founder of the National Council of Negro Women, and first lady Eleanor
Roosevelt, who had come to speak at a meeting of Bethune's organization.
Height eventually rose to leadership roles in both the council and the
YWCA.
Links District 7 Civil Rights Page - http://cwadistrict7.org/cr/index.html National Civil Rights Page - http://www.cwa-union.org/issues/civil-rights CWA Minority Caucus - http://cwanationalminoritycaucus.org CBTU - http://www.cbtu.org CLUW - http://www.cluw.org/ A Phillip Randolph Institute - http://www.apri.org/ CWA 7102 is also proud to represent the Police, Fire Dept, Public Works, etc. in the City of Waukee.
(Click on the graphic) CITY OF WAUKEE: VP: Bill Daggett 208-2142 email billdaggett@cwa7102.org Chief Steward Lee Perkins work 515 987 4363 cellular 515 707 5016 email leeperkins@cwa7102.org Visit the Dallas County web site. Visit the Waukee Public Safety web site. ![]()
City of Waukee Iowa Firemem's Asoc. (Click on the graphics) Have info about things going on in the Waukee area or Union Issues. email webmaster Iowa Federation of Labor, AFL-CIO The Federation is a coalition of unions. It is the official organization of the National AFL-CIO in Iowa.
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